2-Letter Words Ending in C

SCHLIERE a small streak in an igneous rock

That's a morbid sort of hardening

Of an eye membrane

It's getting a bit thick to be so loving at last

""Body, Human""

Descriptive of a scurvy knave (wordplay)

What a scurvy knave may be

""Relating to signs or symbols, esp. spoken or written signs [adj] : SEMEIOTICALLY""

'Black Maria, a - herself, rummages through the Zodiac' (Tom Wolfe)

Issue A not quite complete, so is binding B to C (wordplay)

""Pl. serologies The science that deals with the properties and reactions of serums, especially blood serum.""

In a total mess

Chaotic and inefficient

Confused clash involving mob I fancy

A disease of the lungs caused by continued inhalation of the dust of siliceous minerals and characterized by progressive fibrosis and a chronic shortness of breath.

SMECTITE a clayey mineral

""SODOMITE one who practices sodomy, also SODOMIST""

SOPHIST one who use sophisms

Poor sci-fi rerun sending one to sleep

Inducing drowsiness or sleep

That's enough to make one drop off

Done in short bursts

Done in brief irregular bursts

Faulty compass I'd disconnected

""Of or pertaining to semen; as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc. as, the spermatic fluid, the spermatic vessels, etc.""

Pencil set (anagram)

Being irritable, select pin differently

There's a splice around the cross net

Slugging percentage, for one

R.B.I., for one

E.g. crime figure

""Pertaining to, or of the nature of, steatite; containing or resembling steatite.""

STEMMA a family tree

A notorious profligate or criminal who has been branded; one who bears the marks of infamy or punishment.

Digestive medicine for cat in African country is fashionable

The "S" in SALT

Forming part of a long-term plan

Of military importance.

Artistic city's redesigned around tip

Pertaining to literary design or appearance

Rhetorical

Designating Greenland, Baffin Land, etc

Very tiny coat - bum is suffering!

Smaller than small

Like a quark

TROPIC an imaginary circle on the celestial sphere

Singular bubble with incomplete opening will make one sweat

""SUPER to reinforce with a thin cotton mesh, as a book""

Sensuous city bar is demolished

Affording, enjoying, luxury

Devoted to luxury

""Pl. syllepses (-s z) A construction in which a word governs two or more other words but agrees in number, gender, or case with only one, or has a different meaning when applied to each of the words, as in He lost his coat and his temper.""

Mutually beneficial

Of different organisms, living together for mutual benefit

Equally balanced

Evenly proportioned.

Well proportioned

Ecology Occupying the same or overlapping geographic areas without interbreeding. Used of populations of closely related species.

Like some music? My, Chopin's fantastic!

My! Chopin's unusually melodic

Like a major classical music form

""Uniting and blending together different systems, as of philosophy, morals, or religion.""

""Genetically identical or closely related, so as to allow tissue transplant; immunologically compatible: syngeneic grafts; syngeneic animals.""

Cynic heard about my refusal to come up with the same definition

Relating to language structure

Random choice of Smollett

Clerical doctor has a bit of a scheme concerned with aspect of language

Man-made (fibre)

Artificially-made compound

Dacron, for example

Contractile

Of seas, especially if small or inland

Not entirely gormless, clasping a girl of the seas

Of the seas, especially those that are small or inland

Typical of sightseers

Of aeronautical speeds.

Close to speed of sound

Prepares in cartons really fast

TROPIST a user of tropes

""UTOPIST one who believes in the perfectibility of human society, also UTOPIAN""

Digital media item

Outmoded home entertainment medium

DVD component

VIRTUOSI virtuoso

WHOLIST a believer of holism

""ZOOSPORE a swarm-spore, also ZOOSPERM""

ACTIVIST an advocate of {activism=n}

Affected with albinism.

""ALKAHEST the hypothetical solvent sought by alchemists, also ALCAHEST""

Of or involving a change in the shape and activity of an enzyme that results from molecular binding with a regulatory substance at a site other than the enzymatically active one.

Unselfish liars? Cut it out!

Concerned for others' wellbeing

Hardly selfish

Aiding the memory

Of or pertaining to anaplasty.

Ether, for one

It may put you to sleep

It may be administered before surgery

""Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style. as, the dry annalistic style.""

Application for injury benefit, perhaps

Preventing growth of microorganisms

Alcohol, for example.

Counteracting electrical build-up

Kind of carpet

Tending to resist charge build-up

Inclined to quote maxims

Like an adage

Expressed pithily.

""Having or designating conspicuous or warning colors or structures indicative of special means of defense against enemies, as in the skunk.""

""Like, or imitative of, anything archaic; pertaining to an archaism.""

ASCOCARP a spore-producing organ of certain fungi

ASCOSPORE One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.

Not right insight (wordplay)

Suffering distortions of vision

Having double-vision

ASTROCYTE a large star-shaped neuroglial cell in nervous tissue.

Sky-high (colloq.)

Extremely large (colloq.)

It can be so romantic - really great!

Not regularly shaped

Not perfectly balanced

Like this puzzle's grid

Type of curve, in math.

Of or pertaining to austenite.

AXOPLASM the cytoplasm of an axon

BASOPHILE

BIOSPHERE

A disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

Having a hidden meaning

""CELLULOSE Consisting of, or containing, cells.""

""CHIASMA a connection formed during meiosis, also CHIASM""

Millenarian.

COLORIST a person skilled in the use of color

Produced by cosmic rays.

Pl. cosmogonies The astrophysical study of the origin and evolution of the universe.

Crescentshaped.

CRYOSCOPE an instrument for measuring freezing and melting points.

CRYOSTAT a refrigeration apparatus

Having an inhibitory action on cell growth or cell division.

Indicating the nature of an illness

Computer error message

A symptom used to identify a disease

Detectives welcoming one black friend's return with spondee, say

An instrument that measures and indicates the amount of x-rays or radiation absorbed in a given period.

DYNAMIST an adherent of {dynamism=n}

""An inflammatory disorder of the lower intestinal tract, usually caused by a bacterial, parasitic, or protozoan infection and resulting in pain, fever, and severe diarrhea, often accompanied by the passage of blood and mucus.""

Adjective (-ic)

""Abnormal development or growth of tissues, organs, or cells.""

""Medicine Of, relating to, or afflicted with dystrophy.""

EMBOLISM obstruction of a blood vessel by an embolus

""A pathological condition of the lungs marked by an abnormal increase in the size of the air spaces, resulting in labored breathing and an increased susceptibility to infection. It can be caused by irreversible expansion of the alveoli or by the destruction of alveolar walls.""

Crazy picosecond of peering into people

Final large policeman in charge of instrument for viewing organs

""Of or relating to, or consisting of, the epiblast.""

Situated immediately over the stomach

Serving or tending to form an eschar;; producing a scar; caustic.

Like a writer of short pieces

""ESTROGEN a female sex hormone, also ESTRIOL, OESTRIOL, ESTRIN, OESTRIN, OESTROGEN, ESTRONE, OESTRONE, THEELIN, THEELOL""

Being enthusiastic with detailed planning after European Union

""Belonging to the euphuists, or euphuism; affectedly refined.""

Adjective (-ic)

EXORCIST one who practices {exorcism=n}

EXOSPHERE

FABULIST a {liar=n}

Adjective (-ic)

Believing in the inevitability of events

Accepting the inevitable.

Not believing a lot can be changed

Iron skirts? Time, I see, to be demanding women's rights

Like much sci-fi

Fruit is cut, prepared for 7

Mixed fruit is cut ahead of time

""GLUCOSIDE One of a large series of amorphous or crystalline substances, occurring very widely distributed in plants, rarely in animals, and regarded as influental agents in the formation and disposition of the sugars. They are frequently of a bitter taste, but, by the action of ferments, or of dilute acids and alkalies, always break down into some characteristic substance (acid, aldehyde, alcohol, phenole, or alkaloid) and glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates. glucose (or some other sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.""

GLYCOSIDE

Providing stability through spin

Giving stability through high-speed rotation

Cog so pricy to fix, spinning as a ship's navigational aid, say (wordplay)

Concerned with self-gratification

Devoted to pleasure

Pleasure-seeking

Styptic

Pl. histologies The anatomical study of the microscopic structure of animal and plant tissues.

This ironic novel is melodramatic

Of acting; dramatic

Like a ham's performance

Cultural

""Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a humorist.""

HYDROSOL an aqueous solution of a colloid

Faster than Mach 5

Very much faster than sound

Why person ice-skating circles very fast (wordplay)

STATIC random noise produced in a radio or television receiver

Of or pertaining to hysteresis.

High-minded - italicised (anagram)

Utopian cities laid out

Striving for perfection

Lacking in drawing power (wordplay)

Lacking in taste

Lacking creative talent; intact iris (anagram)

Having frequencies below those of audible sounds

Cars, if in no condition, cannot be heard

Having equal entropy.

Adjective (-ic)

ISOENZYME

Of the conjugation of two similar reproductive cells

ISOGLOSS a line indicating linguistically varied areas

Isomorphous.

Having equal pressure.

ISOPLETH a type of {isogram=n}

Loyal to a fault

Jack in turn is tribal leader in charge who is chauvinistic

Patriotic

English word

Fussy about rules

Excessively adhering to the law

Formal to a fault

Related to speech

Belonging to language.

Relating to language

Adjective (-ic)

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

MASTODON an extinct elephant-like mammal

One million parsecs.

""MEGASCOPE A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.""

MEGASPORE

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

With multiple notes sung to one syllable

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

MESOPHYTE

Philosophical groundwork

In what orchestras make, the pay varies - there's no universal system of thought

""Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth. as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.""

MONOSTELE

Pronouncing on issues of right and wrong

Upright, to a fault

Righteously ethical

MUSCARINE

Abnormal muscular weakness or fatigue.

Relating to nativism.

Revivalist (art)

Recreating ancient motifs

In a style revived from the past

""Of or pertaining to neoplasty, or neoplasia.""

NEPOTIST one who practices {nepotism=n}

*Believing in nothing

Believing in nothing

Rejecting all values

ASCETIC one who practices self-denial for religious reasons

Twine, as opposed to rubber bands

PLASTIC a synthetic mouldable substance

NOVELIST one who writes novels

Pertaining to collectors' items.

Relating to coins or currency

Of coins

Hopeful and confident

Happy-go-lucky

When Mr. Tebow is hopeful, he feels...

ORGANISM any form of animal or plant life

Instruments ()

Osteogenetic.

PACIFIST an advocate of {pacifism=n}

PARADISE a place of extreme beauty and delight

Often Paradise The Garden of Eden.

PARODIST one who {parodies=v}

Of or pertaining to pederasty.

Viewing on all sides

Spectral tailless rodents seen by parking area in southern county

Eerie

""Of or pertaining to phlogiston, or to belief in its existence.""

""Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, or phosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. as, phosphatic nodules.""

The acid in Coca Cola

Relating to a particular element

PLEONASTE A black variety of spinel.

PLEUSTON aquatic vegetation

CYSTIC pertaining to a {cyst=n}

Excessive or abnormal thirst.

PHASIC relating to a phase

POPULIST a member of a party which represents the common people

Adjective (-ic)

Subsequent to the Babylonian captivity, in Jewish history

""Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.""

Favoring Simon Magus's sect (wordplay)

Looking ahead

Omen.

Like artificial body parts

Peg cheers German man with facial twitch

Like Captain Hook's hook

Indulging in fighting

Of prize-fighting

""Of or pertaining to the Quietists, or to Quietism.""

Like some electrical resistors

RIGORIST one who professes rigorism

Joint at the base of the spine

A joint in the lower back

Strong pelvic joint

""Of, producing, or resulting from putrefaction.""

""SAXOPHONE A wind instrument of brass, containing a reed, and partaking of the qualities both of a brass instrument and of a clarinet.""

Causing division in the RC Church

Favouring separation from a church

Singular elegance about theory volunteers rejected being fractious (wordplay)

Relating to education

Pedant and stoic clash violently

Clash with stoic could be academic